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Malaysia Plane Was Carrying Lithium-Ion Batteries
- hindsightbias 13y agohttp://gigaom.com/2011/04/04/lithium-ion-batteries-faulted-for-jet-crash/ http://gigaom.com/2011/04/04/lithium-ion-batteries-faulted-f... "Lithium battery fires are typically difficult or impossible to extinguish. Any such ‘burning metal’ fires on any type of aircraft in flight would be extremely dangerous because they often burn very hot (several thousands of degrees Centigrade) and are able to generate their own oxygen as they progress through combusting battery materials. Unfortunately, depressurization of a cargo hold is a last-ditch but nonetheless futile measure to contain them because such fires create their own oxygen from oxide materials inside batteries" So you can't have an LI fire and keep flying for hours, unlike a cockpit fire.